Thelma Schoonmaker Quotes
'Silence,' I think, was the hardest, because it's so different from everything we've done before and required very delicate handling and trying to find the right meditative pace.
Schoonmaker, Thelma. Interview by Bill Desowitz. "‘Silence’: How Thelma Schoonmaker Edited Martin Scorsese’s Masterpiece." IndieWire, Penske Business Media, 13 Jan. 2017.
Thelma Colbert Schoonmaker is an American film editor, known for her over fifty years of work with director Martin Scorsese. She started working with Scorsese on his debut feature film Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), and edited all of Scorsese's films since Raging Bull (1980). Schoonmaker has received eight Academy Award nominations for Best Film Editing, and has won three times—for Raging Bull (1980), The Aviator (2004), and The Departed (2006), which were all Scorsese-directed films.